A Holocaust Reunion

 

 

 

 

 

 

Momma And Poppa Were Gassed

 

 

 

 

 

 

It Was 1942, And Nazis Were Kidnapping Children  

Wssewolod Galezkij and 7 year-old  Irene Famulak were separated in 1942 when Nazis took her to a labor camp.

   

 

 

 

 

 

Nazis Arrested The Girl

That was the night the invading Nazis came to take her away from her Ukrainian home.

"The Nazis told my mother that I was being taken to work in a German labor camp for six months. But it was, of course, much longer. I was there for years."
But after 66 years apart, Famulak, 83, was reunited with her long lost 73-year-old brother, Wssewolod Galezkij. They held each other close this time, cherishing the moment. Watch siblings hug for first time in seven decades »
 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1942 when Nazis took her to a labor camp.

Nazis stopped theri Russian blitzkrieg to capture a 17 year old girl and use a train to ship her to Germany? 

   

 

 

 

 

 

The Girl Flies To America

When it was liberated in 1945, Famulak stayed in Germany for several years, eventually emigrating to the United States in 1956.
 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Klein Found The Missing Sibling

Linda Klein, the director of the American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center, said the volunteer who helped the siblings find each other got caught up in the emotion herself.

"When I showed her the picture, she stood there and wept," Klein said. "She was beside herself."

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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What Utter Nonsense

Germans, during their Russian offensive, were grabbing seven year-old children and shipping them hundreds of miles to Germany. What can a seven year-old do? Did she run a lathe, or train attack dogs, or maybe test tanks?

This story gets put in the Anne Frank bin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was a Holocaust deer hunter

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